Cannot use online banking with Bank of Ireland

[TenLeftFingers]

visiting the below URL gives a compatibility error :

I cannot paste URL with BQ device so adding as attachment from terminal instead.

[Tuomas Heino (iheino+ub)]

Is this just useragent-sniffing / them mis-identifying the browser as chrome 35? Or did you get other errors besides them complaining about browser version?

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

Sorry Tuomas, I didnt see your message. I just got the error in the attachment. I don't know what the cause is.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

It seems to be only user agent sniffing indeed. I tried a simple user agent override, and I’m not getting the error message. I can’t try the actual authentication though, it would be useful if someone with credentials could. The override I tried is the following (to be added to /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/qml/Ubuntu/Web/ua-overrides-mobile.js):

    ["^https?:\/\/www\.365online\.com\/", "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Ubuntu 14.04 like Android 4.4;) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/35.0.1870.2 Mobile Safari/537.36"]

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

I'm happy to try but Id nees guidance. I don't have adb installed but I have the terminal app on the phone and can enable developer mode. It looks like for such a long string it would be better if I could edit the file from the Ubuntu desktop with the phone connected. Will developer mode let me access that file from the desktop?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

You will need to switch the phone to RW mode, because this requires editing a system file.
Then you can use phablet-shell to connect to the device from your desktop via the USB cable, and

  sudo vim.tiny /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/qml/Ubuntu/Web/ua-overrides-mobile.js

to edit the file. Add the override mentioned in comment #4, save the file, close the browser and launch it again, and see if that improves the situation.

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

I used this method to make it RW as the above didn't work for me:
https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg10427.html

sudo phablet-shell never returns anything except a blinking cursor. I take it 14.04 isn't a good choice for this. I could install 15.10 in a VM if that would work?

Many thanks for your advice!

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

It looks like it was never properly RW either. I'll start over with 15.10 and maybe it will work.

I used this PPA ( https://launchpad.net/~phablet-team/+archive/ubuntu/tools ) on 14.04 but it doesn't seem to be enough. I have correctly enabled developer mode, rebooted and unlocked the screen.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

You shouldn’t run phablet-shell as sudo. Run it as a normal user, and then once in the device shell, use sudo to edit the file.

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

The site is working now. I still get a warning but functionality is 100%

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Ok, thanks for the heads-up, I’ll close the bug now. Feel free to re-open if you’re encountering functional issues with that site.